Oh dear. This is another one of those videos that will have the more worryingly unhinged fans in our numbers (hi everyone!) restating the claim that the band are communicating with them directly using subtle, subliminal techniques. What looks like a short featurette about the new Editors single Vibe contains some very useful information...if you know where to look. Ben and Tom give some insights into the song itself but that's not where the real gold lies.
Take a look at the footage of the band rehearsing. Every so often, there are two whiteboards that contain song titles which are probably being tested as live entities. Having watched and zoomed in on this clip approximately 1,234,005 times today, here are the tracks I've deciphered as appearing on the list:-
Heart Attack
Strawberry Lemonade
Sugar
An End Has a Start
Vibe
Magazine
The Racing Rats
Frankenstein
Karma Climb
Picturesque
Educate
Silence
Violence
Barricades
Hallelujah (SL)
Bullets
Obviously we don't know how some of those tunes even sound yet, but my goodness, that's a great set list. Particularly if you're partial to dancing like a loon with far less restraint than is normal in public. It's prudent to note that with Heart Attack taking prime position, as it has done throughout the festival campaign this year, this may even be fairly close to an actual running order. Speculation, I know.
I've said for a little while now that I truly believe the days of older material like Munich and Smokers being permanent fixtures at an Editors show may be coming to a close. After all, the more music you make coupled with a desire to celebrate your most recent songwriting achievements means that some of your history will be put away for a while or even for good. It's already happened (Banging Heads, Last Day, Find Yourself a Safe Place etc etc). Looking at the alternatives here, I would be totally OK with a future where those songs and others like them can be absent and maybe reintroduced later on. For me, that's as exciting as getting to experience the new music we've still yet to hear from EBM.
Take a look at the footage of the band rehearsing. Every so often, there are two whiteboards that contain song titles which are probably being tested as live entities. Having watched and zoomed in on this clip approximately 1,234,005 times today, here are the tracks I've deciphered as appearing on the list:-
Heart Attack
Strawberry Lemonade
Sugar
An End Has a Start
Vibe
Magazine
The Racing Rats
Frankenstein
Karma Climb
Picturesque
Educate
Silence
Violence
Barricades
Hallelujah (SL)
Bullets
Obviously we don't know how some of those tunes even sound yet, but my goodness, that's a great set list. Particularly if you're partial to dancing like a loon with far less restraint than is normal in public. It's prudent to note that with Heart Attack taking prime position, as it has done throughout the festival campaign this year, this may even be fairly close to an actual running order. Speculation, I know.
I've said for a little while now that I truly believe the days of older material like Munich and Smokers being permanent fixtures at an Editors show may be coming to a close. After all, the more music you make coupled with a desire to celebrate your most recent songwriting achievements means that some of your history will be put away for a while or even for good. It's already happened (Banging Heads, Last Day, Find Yourself a Safe Place etc etc). Looking at the alternatives here, I would be totally OK with a future where those songs and others like them can be absent and maybe reintroduced later on. For me, that's as exciting as getting to experience the new music we've still yet to hear from EBM.
